• NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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    4 months ago

    Idiocracy. We live in Idiocracy… 500 years faster than expected.

    • @[email protected]
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      164 months ago

      President Camacho legitimately wanted to find solutions to the problems his constituents faced, AND he had the wisdom and self-awareness to know he needed someone smarter than himself in order to achieve that. He’s willing to try things and change his mind when he is presented with new information. Furthermore, when he is successful, he shares the credit equitably with the other people involved.

      We’re doing much worse than Idiocracy.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        54 months ago

        Idiocracy was a movie working from the naive assumption that people are greedy and shortsighted, and that these attributes lead to social (and eventually genetic) decay.

        Americans have to deal with a much harder truth. That being smart doesn’t make you virtuous and lust for power more than simple hedonistic greed is what cultivates the worst social policies. Our story is a story of pure hubris. Its a story of reasonably intelligent and educated people gaming a system that causes pain in order to pay them a profit.

        We’re doing much worse than Idiocracy.

        America’s sins aren’t sloth or lust or gluttony nearly so much as they are wrath and pride.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            04 months ago

            I dont remember much about genetic decay.

            Its the opening scene.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA

            Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        24 months ago

        He may have been a tad impatient, but he eventually saw the green